Our House

Though it lacks the go-for-the-throat spirit seemingly required to succeed in the broader horror marketplace these days, its sincerity and polish should impress genre die-hards...

"Our House" distinguishes itself with its purposeful pacing ... its use of sound and crosscutting, and its wit with household objects, from a turntable to a mechanical calendar.

Burns and Parker don't have much new or exciting to offer. But with the help of a strong performance from Mann, they do a good job capturing one family's feelings of brokenness, and how far they'd go to get back what they lost.

What this still modest yet considerably slicker upgrade gains in surface gloss and FX, it loses in psychological intensity and suspension of disbelief - qualities the prior film's hand-made auspices heightened.

Our House thoughtfully examines how those traumas can affect the familial unit, and how the worst of circumstances can sometimes bring out the best in people, especially when their loved ones are in jeopardy.

With a brief runtime and a script that doesn't dig deep enough, both the drama and the scares are underserved.

With strong performances from all three leads and great chemistry between them, Our House breathes new life into old horror tropes.

Our House continues the 2018 trend - started by A Quiet Place and Hereditary - of horror movies that are as much about characters, emotions, and ideas as they are about scares.

Instead of a fresh and frightening story, Our House becomes a cluttered collection of horror iconography.

the first half of Our House is a portrait of a broken family, with the psychological fallout amplified by the house's ghostly, gothic underpinnings.